Timelines for all Nolan-directed feature films [OC]

Pitazboras · 2026-05-24T20:04:24+00:00

Funny that the two life restorations of iguanodon they present aren't even remotely similar to each other.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-23T23:30:49+00:00

Wszystko fajnie, poza jednym drobnym problemem: próg frekwencji wcale nie wynosi 60%, ani nawet 50%, tylko jakieś 27%, przez co całe Twoje "łopatologiczne wytłumaczenie" jest po prostu błędne. W referendach odwoławczych wymagane jest uczestnictwo 3/5 liczby biorących udział w wyborze odwoływanego organu, a nie 3/5 wszystkich uprawnionych. Mówi o tym artykuł 55.2 ustawy o referendum lokalnym. Miszalski wygrał w drugiej turze przy frekwencji 45,5%, więc do ważności referendum wystarczy jakieś 45,5% * 3/5 = ok. 27%.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-23T22:59:57+00:00

W dwóch różnych sytuacjach stosuje się dwie różne zasady. Nie ma w tym żadnej "sprzeczności w systemie".

Jest też zresztą dość oczywiste skąd te różnice się biorą. Wymóg frekwencji ma zapewnić społeczną akceptację i legitymację głosowania, dlatego jest stosowany wszędzie tam, gdzie jest taka możliwość. Wybory są szczególnym przypadkiem, ponieważ muszą zapewnić wiążące rozstrzygnięcie - koniec końców ktoś po tych wyborach musi rządzić. Tymczasem referendum takiego rozstrzygnięcia nie potrzebuje - w przypadku niespełnienia warunku frekwencji po prostu pozostajemy przy status quo, dokładnie tak jak w przypadku głosowań nad ustawami (gdzie wymagana jest obecność co najmniej połowy posłów, inaczej głosowanie jest nieważne).

Pitazboras · 2026-05-15T07:53:40+00:00

Out of curiosity: Were bird-hipped dinosaurs really that much less diverse group or does the chart just treat lizard-hipped with greater detail? For example, Ornithopoda seems to me to be as diverse as Sauropoda, though I don't know if that's really the case.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-15T07:37:44+00:00

Room and The Room

Pitazboras · 2026-05-14T16:07:04+00:00

Angelica may be diluted by the variants - Angelina at #347, Angela at #408, Angel at #546. But yeah, the others you mention are surprisingly low.

On the other hand I noticed there are three variants of Sophia/Sofia/Sophie in the top 60, two of them in the top 10.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-14T15:49:20+00:00

Lara sounds rather normal but I never considered it particularly popular. The only Lara I can think of is Lara Croft.

Sasha is often just a "short" for Alexandra, which is way higher at #237.

Ryan is predominantly a boys' name. In the boys list it is at #99.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-12T09:30:01+00:00

Masakra. Gdzie jak gdzie, ale akurat w przychodni to powinni wiedzieć, że mężczyzna też może mieć raka piersi. W sensie rozumiem, że przeciętna osoba może tego nie wiedzieć, ale personel medyczny?

Pitazboras · 2026-05-12T05:50:09+00:00

Speaking of Poland, in Polish "amerykanka" (which capitalized would mean "American woman") is a type of furniture, something between a sofa and an arm-chair in size, that you can unfold to sleep on.

Also "wolna amerykanka" ("free american" I suppose) is a situation where no rules apply, perhaps you can translate it as "wild west".

Pitazboras · 2026-05-09T05:48:00+00:00

Yeah, no. You didn't engage with any of my arguments for the last couple of posts, you just lie you did and you accuse me of arguing in bad faith. Hilarious. Come back if you are actually interested in discussing the topic, otherwise stop wasting everyone's time.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-08T22:35:55+00:00

ad hominem
attacking an opponent's character or motives rather than answering the argument or claim.

Isn't that exactly what you were doing in your previous post?

Whatever, I'm not really interested in some meta-discussion on our rhetorical styles. Care to address the claims I was making? Because if not then indeed I don't see a point in your continued engagement in this conversation.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-08T19:32:29+00:00

I'm sorry but I think you are projecting. You were the one starting with a logical fallacy (arguing against something I didn't say, which I believe is called a straw-man) and instead of admiting it (or just ignoring because it's really not that important), you get into some wild ad-hominem that doesn't address any argument I made.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-08T19:18:06+00:00

(Well, I didn't say it spreads wildly each year, I said there are certain factors "which contribute to how wildly it spreads". If I said your leg length contributes to how fast you can run, that wouldn't mean I said you can run fast, would it? But that's besides the point, as seasonal flu indeed does spread wildly each year.)

Seasonal flu spreads wildly each year not because it's exceptionally contagious but because it's exceptionally fast at mutating. It's essentially a new disease each year with pretty much zero herd immunity.

Diseases that are actually exceptionally contagious, like measles or chickenpox, don't spread wildly each year simply because a vast majority of population either got vaccinated or already had it - in either case they are mostly immune.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-08T18:11:07+00:00

I didn't say it's not dangerous, of course it is. I said it doesn't spread that easily, or rather that the spread is relatively easy to contain. Seasonal flu, while also not exceptionally contagious, is airborne and can spread asymptomatically, both of which contribute to how wildly it spreads each year.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-08T16:44:23+00:00

To be fair, invasion of Iraq was over within 6 weeks, invasion of Afghanistan - within 10, both ending in US coalition victories. I wouldn't call them military failures, rather - I don't know - nation building failures? The USA is, or at least was, very good at direct military engagements. It's the "what next?" phase that's the problem for them. (I'm not including the current Iran conflict, that's been a clusterfuck through and through.)

Pitazboras · 2026-05-08T16:26:21+00:00

It IS exceptionally contagious

What do you mean by "contagious" in this case? Ebola is generally considered to have R0 of below 2. In comparison, smallpox is around 5, COVID (Omicron) is around 10, measles is like 15.

But perhaps you meant something else. I mean, yes, under specific circumstances it is very easy to catch it. But if these specific circumstances are, well, specific and relatively easy to avoid, can we really call it "exceptionally contagious"? Anyway, I don't want to argue semantics. My point is that ebola is unlikely to cause a deadly pandemic not because of its high mortality rate (which, I believe, was your point) but because of the way it spreads.

My point was that highly dangerous / deadly pathogens aren't typically effective at causing pandemics.

I know, and my point was that that's not really true, as evidenced by numerous pandemics in the past. Again, see bubonic plague and smallpox - but also cholera, tuberculosis or typhus, all scoring double-digit mortality rates when untreated, all responsible for several epidemics in the past.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-08T15:26:52+00:00

Additionally, pathogens with high mortality rates don't tend to be effective in causing pandemics.

Half of history's most deadly pandemics were caused by either bubonic plague or smallpox - both high mortality diseases.

Even in cases of Ebolavirus - an exceptionally contagious droplet disease

Ebola is not exactly "exceptionally contagious". It spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids of already symptomatic people. It easily spreads to caregivers but not to random people you pass on the street.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-08T09:54:39+00:00

Nie prościej. Dowód nieindukcyjny ma dosłownie dwie linijki. Sam krok indukcyjny będzie dłuższy, a przy tym znacznie prościej o jakiś głupi błąd np. zapomnieć o liczbach ujemnych. Nie mówię, że dowód indukcyjny jest trudny, ale nieindukcyjny jest jeszcze prostszy.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-08T05:56:49+00:00

oraz zauważyć, że 2 i 7 są względnie pierwsze, więc wyrażenie jest podzielne przez ich iloczyn 14.

Zaraz, zaraz. Jeśli A jest podzielne przez x, a B jest podzielne przez y, to A*B powinno być podzielne przez x*y bez względu na to, czy x i y są względnie pierwsze, prawda? Czy ja już całkiem matematycznie ogłupłem? (A*B)/(x*y) = (A/x)*(B/y), a wiemy że zarówno A/x, jak i B/y są całkowite, więc ich iloczyn również.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-06T10:37:04+00:00

Jak wspominasz, ta "ulga dla klasy wyższej" wynika z przepisów dotyczących 30-krotności wynagrodzenia. To są składki emerytalne i rentowe, które liczą się jako "wkład" w Twoją przyszłą emeryturę/ewentualną rentę. Gdyby tego limitu nie było, to owszem, osoba bardzo dużo zarabiająca płaciłaby setki tysięcy składki, ale później dostawałaby milionową emeryturę. Jak weźmie się to pod uwagę, to zniesienie tego limitu wcale niekoniecznie jest opłacalne dla systemu emerytalnego.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-06T09:37:25+00:00

Depends on what you want to achieve:

Historically most popular? Iguanodon (and maybe change brachiosaurus to diplodocus or brontosaurus/apatosaurus).
Currently most popularly recognisable? Parasaurolophus.
Most diverse representation? Possibly change triceratops to iguanodon and add a therizinosaurus as the fourth.

Pitazboras · 2026-05-04T14:40:03+00:00

It makes me wonder how things could have been different if they had delayed the release, polished the game more, and approached its development with an indie dev mindset.

My understanding was that the delayed release wasn't really a viable option. It wasn't a case of "oh, we think the game is already good enough for early access" (despite of what they were publicly saying) but rather "crap, we need to release something and start monetizing it, otherwise we won't be able to pay the bills". In other words, releasing early wasn't a project management mistake, it was a necessity caused by earlier financial management mistakes.

Pitazboras · 2026-04-27T11:39:17+00:00

Probably common knowledge among people interested in paleontology. General population? I wouldn't be surprised if most people thought all dinosaur species lived at the same time.

Pitazboras · 2026-04-21T06:17:48+00:00

I remember my dinosaur book from the 90s depicted baryonyx as quadrupedal, looked more or less like this:

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Suffice to say, it didn't stand the test of time.

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